Lucianne Goldberg is a journalist, novelist and publisher of Lucianne.com News Forum. She was a New York literary agent for many years representing celebrities, politicians and people who made spectacular news and had just one good book in them. She is the mother of Joshua Goldberg, managing editor of Lucianne.com and Jonah Goldberg, author and Editor at Large for National Review.
Lucianne Goldberg was also a key figure in the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal.
The GOP mantra seems to be 100% anti-Obama. How would you rate this President thus far?
Let's do it the easy way and use a 1 to 10 scale. 1 being Jimmy Carter. 10 being Ronald Reagan. Here's my score so far. 1. A big fat 1. One, one, one, one.
Right now, I'm hearing strongly of a Romney-Palin ticket in 2012. You think that's accurate.
I would hope for someone newer, fresher and carrying lighter luggage than Mitt Romney. He's great to look at, his family is extraordinary but Massachusetts Medicine and Mormonism are a concern. Mormonism doesn't bother me but the yapping and sniping would be very tiring.
Politics aside, do you feel Sarah Palin is qualified to be President?
Well, we have Joe Biden a heart beat away right now. Not much of a contest.
Wait a minute, gaffes aside, Biden is a four-decade senator and has served on numerous Senate committees; you really feel Palin is more qualified?
I don't know that a four decade free ride as a senator from Delaware is such a learning experience. He seems pretty ordinary to me. She, on the other hand, could possibly excite people into caring about a really screwed up system again. There are plenty of others who can handle the nuts and bolts. It's all show biz anyway.
That said, it's a hypothetical trap to answer that question in the first place. I know practically nothing about the woman. I have not studied her every move. She may be a nit wit. She may be a genius. I don't know and I'm not going to pretend I'm some kind of a political wizard. That's my opinion and it's not going to change any one's mind.
What about Newt Gingrich?
The Mayor of Sominex City? No.
You were instrumental in the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal in the late 90's. Looking back, anything you could do differently, would you?
I would have done everything the same way but I would have wanted Clinton to lie for a few more months. My lecture fees were really picking up.
The state of the GOP. Your thoughts.
I 'm waiting for some of our heroes...I mean REAL men and women...to get back from the war zones and start to rumble. That is where the next wave of GOP leaders is coming from. Can't wait.
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Lucianne, on target, as usual.
ReplyDeleteToo short. But I disagree with her on one thing. Obama isn't a 1. He's a negative 20, Carter was ten times the "man" Obama is.
ReplyDeleteOur Lucianne is ALWAYS on Target.
ReplyDeleteShe has the nose for what is going on and she is absolutely correct about Obama being 1.
yes, zippy is The 1.
ReplyDeleteThe right's answer to Arianna Guffington, and a darned good one she is.
ReplyDeleteLucianne on Palin:
ReplyDelete"She, on the other hand, could possibly excite people into caring about a really screwed up system again. There are plenty of others who can handle the nuts and bolts. It's all show biz anyway."
Wow. Freeze frame, right there. Look at those last sentences. Behold the underlying philosophy of conservative political strategy.
The ideal conservative president is supposed to be primarily a figure-head. -Someone who can "excite people into caring" about the system, while leaving the "nuts and bolts" of philosophy and strategic thinking to others (read conservative think tanks).
Does this explain the phenomenon of Ronald Reagan? While a likeable man, certainly Reagan didn't produce the economic philosophy behind Reaganomics, he just espoused it. He was in effect a spokesman for the establishment, just as he operated in the 1950's when he spoke against early plans for national health coverage.
Besides, Lucianne continues, "it's all show biz anyway."
Yes... in other words, it's all smoke and mirrors. It's all sleight of hand designed to fool or mislead the public. But that is not what the founders intended it to be.
Perhaps this concept also explains GW Bush. Like Reagan, he also was a likeable man, but not one known for being the sharpest knife in the drawer. Bush left an impression that much policy emanating from his administration was cobbled together by either Dick Cheney's private goons or lobbiests for the major industries Bush was supposed to regulate.
There have been Republican leaders who I consider more than a figure-head. Take, for instance, Richard Nixon and Dwight Eisenhower. Both seemed to be in charge of their own policy. Both seemed to be less the empty suit spokesman and more the real leader the office deserves.
While there may have been minor quibbles over health care and Mormonism for Mitt Romney, he is more like Eisenhower than Reagan. Ditto for Ron Paul. Ditto for Fred Thompson. Ditto for Rudy Giuliani. These people seem to have some quality that the establishment (which is the foundation of the GOP) finds undesirable. Perhaps it is their personal drive to make their own decisions and lead from their own experience and philosophy rather than serve the office as a "yes man" for some unseen shadow government running out of a conservative think tank.
Perhaps they are undesirable because they actually have personal experience creating policy rather than being policy spokesmen.
Just a thought...
It is all smoke and mirrors. The real government is not elected. It is the bureaucracy, the people who have career positions that never change regardless of who is elected. If you want to change government - we have to rid Washington of the gnomes. They write the laws and drip, drip, drip their evil into the bills. Who do you think writes 2500 pages of drivel in 24 hours? Certainly not the celebrity elected officials who don't even read it. They count on their gnomes to read it and tell them how to vote.
ReplyDeleteIt is an insidious system that has evolved.
Title is very misleading. Lucianne is not a muckraker and she did not trash any one. Just the truth and the truth is welcome anywhere.
ReplyDeleteCLINTON was the one responsible forthe Lewinsky scandal. Lucianne was not.
ReplyDeleteThe Way is right on. But how do we rid our country of these lifetime career bureaucrats?
ReplyDeleteThe important differece is to elect as our president a leader who will *choose* the policy wonk "gnomes" who will work for him or her. This is far more preferable to electing someone who will work merely as a spokesman for the un-seen and unelected gnomes in those think tanks.
ReplyDeleteThis is why the recent USSC roll back of campaign finance regulations will ultimately undermine the office of the president. Allowing more corporate money into the election process will ensure those un-seen and unelected people in the think tanks (who work for the establishment) can destroy any candidate deemed unlikely to kowtow to establishment interests.
One good example of evil unelected gnomes: The Project for the New American Century.
Consider:
ReplyDeleteIf corporate establishment money were allowed into the election process at the very beginning of this country, we would not have wound up with George Washington as our president. No, we would probably have gotten a Redcoat sympathizer as president. This is because the British establishment had all the money and most of the power.
And if this had happened, obviously we would still be drinking British tea.
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